At the Coalition March on the RNC yesterday, they had speakers literally saying Republicans hate black people, Hispanics, and Muslims. There's no need to look for people subtly playing the race card when it's being done so openly.

"How many years will it be before another African American (don't quibble about half white) will be the nominee for the Democratic Party?"

damikesc said...

"It won't be rare."

Actually, given America's demographics, and Obama's manifest failures (presuming defeat and no opportunity to rehabilitate his reputation in office), Obama might be the last Black president for quite some time.

Hispanics most assuredly want their chance, and since most Black politicians climb not much higher than mayor of an urban city these days, and urban cities fairly consistently fail to send mayors to governors' mansions, Black hit a political cul de sac.

The next non-white president will be a Hispanic governor or senator; from which party I cannot say.

BTW, Matthews may indeed think there is racism in this, but you also have to remember that crying racism is ALL they have. If that doesn't work anymore. If people stop believing it and stop running from the accusation, they are doomed as a political party.

The Racializing Influence of Romney’s Welfare AdPart of this racialized turn in the campaign involves Romney’s welfare ad earlier this month—an ad that questionably accused Obama of ending welfare for work requirements. While that charge may seem race-neutral, there is a long-standing and strong association in white Americans’ minds between welfare and “undeserving” African-Americans (see here and here). According to Jonathan Chait, then, “the political punch of this messaging derives from the fact that white middle-class Americans understand messages about redistribution from the hard-working middle-class to the lazy underclass in highly racialized terms.”...The figure below shows that there was almost no relationship between racial resentment and the opinions of people who did not see the ad. But among those who saw it, racial resentment affected whether people thought Romney will help the poor, the middle class, and African-Americans. Moreover, seeing the ad did not activate other attitudes, such as party or ideological self-identification. It only primed racial resentment.

I wonder how long until the next RNC chairman offers an apology for the racial strategy that the Republicans employ to win elections.

Man. I wish I'd known that implying the president was illegitimate was inherently racist. It would've made 2000-2008 so much easier to understand; people were just racist against Bush. Heck, the whole monkey thing makes sense. Racists just hated Bush.

I'm also glad to know that carrying a weapon at a polling place and trying to intimidate voters is in no way intimidating. Some Klansman was saying he'd wear a sheet and go to the inner city to scare off some Obama voters, I told him that was wrong. Clearly, though, Tim Wise is right -- nothing wrong with drumming up some racial hatred! Maybe we should arm that Klansman too, since there's nothing wrong with carrying weapons at polling places.

Though, I don't understand why Wise sees anything wrong with people thinking Obama might enslave people; Biden made the same accusation about Republicans, so, you know, I guess it's a wash. Or maybe Wise didn't notice that and forgot that Biden's pretty racist.

Apparently, when more people vote, fewer people vote. Or something, judging by Wise's teachings on voter ID.

I don't have time to click through every link Wise has there. But, on a quick skim, he seems to be... hyperventilating, let's say. There may be some actual, honest-to-God racism in there. The problem with Wise is the same problem the left has with all accusations of racism. They never just let the accusation stand about actual racism.

They let the racism accusations get jumbled into politics. Instead of focusing on the actual racism, they try to inject it and use it like a bludgeon on matters unrelated to race, then to twist non-racist things into racism.

Maybe Wise has a good argument hidden in there. But his presentation is terrible.

If Obama had anything...anything else, do you think his side would be talking about race when their guy is a 1/2 black, raised by whites, poseur. If you looked at his life and didn't know his race, you would never guess he was Black until he got political ambition and decided to sucker the people who fall for that kind of thing.

Imagine if this President was successful and he and his supporters were proud of his record. He could pretend to rise above race like he seemed to in 2008 when he at least had promise. Clearly his supporters are admitting that the promise is gone.

Also, I think it is interesting: "Hey, did people who see an ad somehow get more favorable opinions about the person putting out the ad?" If so, clearly, it is because, racism!

"Interestingly, the ad did not appear to further racialize the perceived consequences of Obama’s policies, either. This is probably because racial attitudes are already linked to Obama, and a single political ad isn’t enough to significantly strengthen an already strong relationship."

Not only that, here's a note about the "racial resentment" metric: "To be sure, this does not mean that everyone who scores high on this measure is unsympathetic to African-Americans or racially resentful."

So, the key thing they are measuring? May not even measure what they want to measure. This is bad science.

Yeah, it's really hard to figure out who is playing the race card. It's all a big mystery.

Actually nothing that individual linked to has anything to do with racism. As a matter of fact, it appeared to be a compilation of the similar kind of boilerplate conspiracy garbage the left flung at George Bush for eight years.

"This likely stems from the fact that Romney favorability ratings are strongly related to thinking his policies will help the poor, the middle class, and blacks, but only weakly related to believing he’d help whites and the wealthy."

-- Clearly, Romney's policies that are viewed as helping blacks, the poor and middle class? Those policies are racist.

Not only that: We've yet to address the fact that the metric they want to use to measure ("racial resentment") is acknowledged as faulty. That's like trying to weigh something with a bad scale that, sometimes, gets it right. No one would let you use that sort of scale when it came to determining how much you owe for a pound of something. I see no reason to allow a non-scientific metric be used in an allegedly scientific way.

Do the group of conservative commenters here ever acknowledge that something is racist, or that racism is a problem in the United States?

Of course, when you have a bona fide case of racism that occurs. For example, the rednecks who dragged by black man behind a truck that are now on death row are racist. Criticising Obama's health care plan is not racist despite what Jimmy Carter believes.

Racism isn't a US problem, its a human race problem and isn't restricted to one race. Just ask a Darfurian.

"The thing we adore about these dog-whistle kerfuffles is that the people who react to the whistle always assume it's intended for somebody else. The whole point of the metaphor is that if you can hear the whistle, you're the dog." -- James Taranto

I've said it in this forum before, and it bears saying again: racism is the prism through which the American post-Marxist Left sees American history. Just read Howard Zinn's histories or, for a higher quality example of the genre, read this.

The modern Left cannot abandon racial analysis any more than the Marxists could abandon class consciousness.

So, when you hear the Left drone on about racism, just imagine you're hearing a discussion about rape from a feminist who thinks that all heterosexual relationships are rape, because for the Left racism is in the warp & woof of American society, and has been since the Pilgrim Fathers set foot on Plymouth Rock.

It was pretty racist when Trent Lott said how much better things would have been if we'd elected Strom Thurmond President. No doubt he was forced out as the Senate GOP leader for some unrelated reason.

The sick and decadent liberal Democratic party. Totally corrupt as is the corrupt liberal media.

The American voters are going to give Obama a dishonorable discharge come November and I say good riddance to that sorry un-American, anti-American socialist/communist son of a "fellow traveler." As to Tom Brokaw .. what a total pile of pussy. A totally conventional liberal pussy.

Ah, yess, Hat - "respectable conservatism." That's a synonym for "strange new respect." When Barry Goldwater was running for president, people like you wore buttons reading In your guts, you know he's nuts!, but when you found you could dragoon him into supporting gays in the military, old Barry was suddenly a wise statesman.

Ronnie Raygun - "the evil in the White House" according to that flatulent old drunken dogfucker Tip O'Neill - is now used by the left as a stick to beat the GOP: Reagan would never have done that! Why can't you teatards be bipartisan like Reagan?

And of course, I expect that when Romney becomes President, people like you will wail that the GOP is now the party of extremists, not like that sane middle-of-the-road George W.

Anyone bleating about respectable conservatism mean only that they want the GOP to remain a punching bag for the scum of the left.

Do the group of conservative commenters here ever acknowledge that something is racist, or that racism is a problem in the United States?

No problem, Hat. Would you like me to link to Harry Belafonte calling Colin Powell a house nigger? Or perhaps to Pat Oliphant's cartoons portraying Condoleeza Rice as Aunt Jemima? Or Garry Trudeau labeling her "Brown Sugar?" You mean racism like that?

Or are you under the mistaken apprehension that the party of Lincoln has any reason to apologize for over 100 years of Democrat racism?

"I wonder how long until the next RNC chairman offers an apology for the racial strategy that the Republicans employ to win elections."

I wonder how long until the next DNC chairwoman offers an apology for being the party of slavery, Jim Crow, opposition to Civil Rights laws, and the breakup of the Black family through government dependency? 200+ years of racist policies, and they claim to have the moral high ground.

Do the group of conservative commenters here ever acknowledge that something is racist, or that racism is a problem in the United States?

I think that a lot of Republicans will admit that the Democrats are inherently racist, and demonstrate this continuously in their racially decisive politics.

"I think that a lot of Republicans will admit that the Democrats are inherently racist, and demonstrate this continuously in their racially decisive politics."

This is, of course, objectively true.

Liberals and Democrats know it is true, and thus project their racism on Republicans to ensure their base (and themselves, too) is both distracted by the failure of liberal Democrat policies to deliver on behalf of racial minorities (as if fostering dependency and undermining accomplishment through affirmative action *really are* the tickets to success in America) and energized to vote for those who have never delivered anything but multi-generational ignorance, dependency and poverty.

Liberal Democrats cannot confront this reality without acknowledging the terrible, corrosive, killing price their racism has imposed upon racial minorities in America.

I wonder how long until the next DNC chairwoman offers an apology for being the party of slavery, Jim Crow, opposition to Civil Rights laws, and the breakup of the Black family through government dependency?

The current one won't apologize when nailed, red-handed, misquoting newspapers.

George W Bush won't get strange new respect until the current crop of liberals are dead and buried. There was just too much hate and vitriol, too much identity tied up in "This man is not just wrong, he's evil."

John McCain gets the envious position of being on the receiving end of Strange New Respect twice in his life though!

If you could post a blog post referencing this one that would be great because I'd rather comment on a comment on a blog post referring to a blog post talking about playing the playing the playing race card card card than commenting just on a blog post talking about playing the playing the playing the race card card card. Or maybe you can just blog about another person linking to this blog post. That would be even better.

"You can tell this was a dog whistle because different groups of people heard it totally differently. CBS’s Jan Crawford noted on Twitter that there were “two reactions to his birth certificate joke: reporters gasped–and a crowd of thousands laughed and cheered.” The crowd heard the straightforward meaning: It was a joke and an applause line. The watchdogs of the press heard the whistle, and so did other lefties. To judge by this MSNBC clip, and this one, it drove them into a mad and wonderfully entertaining frenzy. . . The thing we adore about these dog-whistle kerfuffles is that the people who react to the whistle always assume it’s intended for somebody else. The whole point of the metaphor is that if you can hear the whistle, you’re the dog."